Nintendo's WiiWare service is going to be expanding beyond games shortly. Sun Denshi announced today plans to distribute digital comics through the Japanese version of the service starting later this summer.

The company will be forming a new Sunsoft Books brand for distributing content through the service. Wii owners will be able to view the digital comics using a viewer application that was developed internally at Sun.

Sun is kicking off the new initiative in a major way, with an original manga produced by Reiji Matsumoto, creator of the Space Battleship Yamato series. The company plans on first distributing the manga through the new WiiWare service, then expanding the new property to games, anime, books, pachinko and other media.

Wow.. that's.. different., for a video game console
all depends on how good the "viewer" will be.
i imagine this will be a big hit in japan atleast, and it would probably if it's released in EU/US work very well also.

Hmm.. all those pictures would take up some megabytes.. yet another genre to fill up your storage, hope for a storage solution at E3..